DuClaw’s Sweet Baby Jesus!
Recently, I asked some folks ‘What makes you return to a favorite restaurant, listen to the same song over and over or order the same beer at your favorite watering hole?’ We all thought about…
Tag: Beer Review
Two Guinness Imperial Stouts
Tis the season for enjoying darker brews during cooler months. Winter lends itself to heartier liquids. It just feels right and works within so many applications of food pairing or just enjoying a rich and…
Wormtown Blizzard of 78
Having experienced first-hand the snowfall that was nicknamed Blizzard of ’78 (as in 1978), this week’s focus beer had a haunting attraction. At that time, I was a superintendent for a rather large brick apartment…
Victory’s Merry Monkey
Variations. It’s a word that describes different versions of something (a product, issue or style) and tends to possibly excite the interested viewer. It may come as a surprise or as an anticipated event. It…
Ten Bends’ Green Fountains IPA
Now that election season is behind us and we are beyond the phone calls, TV ads and endless mailings for the candidates, we can get back to life in Covid country. In the coming weeks,…
Twin Barns Burlwood Porter
As we slide back into dark beer season, folks often categorize porters and stouts as the same type of beer. Although looking like close neighbors to each other, they are most definitely different which confuses…
Maduro & Espresso Brown Ales
As the colors of autumn begin to fade into the memories of this past summer and fall, we pack up our lawn chairs and canoes, put away our golf clubs and tennis rackets, get out…
Rogue Pumpkin Patch Ale
It is officially fall and pumpkin beer season. It’s when we forget about light summer beers and cast our sites on seasonals and heartier beer. Sweaters, jackets, turtlenecks and gloves are the go-to garb for…
603’s Toasted Pumpkin Ale 2020
The cooling temperatures and altered colors of foliage begin the time when we look at different changes that effect our lives and the food and beverage choices we make during those times. One cannot overlook…
Two Classic Belgians
After two weeks away from our favorite liquids within this column (beeeeerrr), we return with two very classic styles from where a lot of great beer is born; Belgium. Although Germany wants to be solely…
Lone Pine’s Space Metal Dinosaur DIPA
There were some terms born in the late sixties or early seventies referring to the debris floating above us in the thin layer of airless space known as orbit. The gravitation of earth would hold…
Proclamation Mythomania
Do you ever feel like you’re in a “holding pattern”? Not really stuck or you’ve hit a plateau, but generally going for the same things over and over. Well, it seems I just gravitate toward…
Moat Mountain’s 20 DIPA
We are more than half way through our summer vacation time in this interesting year that changed history. Wearing a face mask when entering a business or restaurant is the new norm. Signs still appear…
Jacked Up DIPA from Hobbs Brewing
India has given us a lot to be happy about. Spices like curry and cumin help to make their food hot and delicious. But what has really brought India notoriety in the beer world are…
Shed Mountain Ale
Enjoying summer fun and activities associated with it is a tradition in the Lakes Region. Boating, water skiing, swimming, hiking and taking drives on hot days are commonalities. And since we are still in the…